We have never had a real tree before, we have always had a plastic one that Richard and I brought our first Christmas as a married couple, making our tree 13 years old. It is a well travelled tree, it was brought in Glasgow, been to Azerbaijan, Aberdeen, Singapore, Ulsan and now Hampshire. Where it will stay in the attic this year.

So we were all full of Christmas spirit when we went to pick our tree.I thought we might look at a couple of trees and see which one we liked, but I forgotten how decisive my husband could be. He looked at this one and decided that it was the one for us! I was only just quick enough with the camera before the tree was whisked away to be netted up.

Then we had a shuffle the furniture around to make enough space, fortunately our measurements for the height were right and the tree just fitted into the space.

Gregor had a couple of friends round that afternoon so we had 4 children decorating the tree, and we have pretty much left it as they decorated it with only a little bit of spreading out the decorations.